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RIP Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

by | Oct 14, 2021

RIP Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a sixteen-year-old U.S. citizen killed in Yemen on this day in 2011 by a missile launched from a U.S. drone. “We murdered some folks.”

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About Laurie Calhoun

Laurie Calhoun is a Senior Fellow for The Libertarian Institute. She is the author of Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times,We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age, War and Delusion: A Critical Examination, Theodicy: A Metaphilosophical Investigation, You Can Leave, Laminated Souls, and Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic's Critique. In 2015, she began traveling around the world while writing. In 2020, she returned to the United States, where she remained until 2023 as a result of the COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed by governments nearly everywhere.

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We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age

War and Delusion: A Critical Examination

You Can Leave: a novel

Theodicy: A Metaphilosophical Investigation

Laminated Souls

Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic's Critique

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